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\chapter*{Abbreviations and Acronyms}

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10GE & 10 Gigabit Ethernet \\
AHCI & Advanced Host Controller Interface \\
AIO & Asynchronous I/O \\
API & Application Programming Interface \\
ATX & Advanced Technology eXtended \\
BOD & Bandwidth On Demand \\
COTS & Commercial Off The Shelf\\
CPU & Central Processing Unit \\
DBBC & Digital Base Band Converter \\
DMA & Direct Memory Access \\
EVN & European VLBI Network \\
FPGA & Field-Programmable Gate Array \\
FS & File System \\
FUSE & File system in Userspace \\
Gb & Gigabit \\
GB & Gigabyte \\
GNU & GNU’s Not Unix \\
HPC & High Performance Computing \\
IT & Information Technology \\
JIVE & Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe \\
LFN & Long Fat Network \\
NAPI & New API \\
NCQ & Native Command Queuing \\
NFS & Network File System \\
NIC & Network Interface Card \\
OS & Operating System \\
PCI & Peripheral Component Interconnect \\
PPS & Pulse Per Second \\
RAID & Redundant Array of Independent Disks \\
RAM & Random Access Memory \\
RDMA & Remote Direct Memory Access \\
RTT & Round Trip Time \\
SSD & Solid State Drive \\
SATA & Serial Advanced Technology Attachment \\
SCTP & Stream Control Transmission Protocol \\
TCP & Transmission Control Protocol \\
UDP & User Datagram Protocol \\
VFS & Virtual File System \\
VLBI & Very-long-baseline interferometry \\
VSI & VLBI Standard Interface \\

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